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We work in the Traffic Accident Department. Sometimes we need to take photographs of some traffic accidents in order to protect the rights of our brother citizens [i.e., establish who is at fault so that no one is unjustly treated, etc.]. Sometimes people who happen to be at the scene appear in the pictures. What is the ruling on this?
Praise be to Allaah.
There is nothing wrong with this kind of work, because it is taking pictures that serve a purpose, indeed they are necessary. There is nothing wrong if pictures taken at the scene of the accident include people who are not involved. But if the pictures are taken by someone using his own camera, in order to keep the pictures for himself, then this is not allowed. It is haraam not in and of itself, but because of the purpose, which is to keep the pictures for himself with no need to do so. The reason why you are taking the pictures, on the other hand, is for a legitimate and necessary purpose.


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OUT ON A LIMB: As a former model, Alexa Chung knows her body well enough to go for what suits her best. "Smocks, absolutely," said Chung, wearing precisely one such dress at Moschino Cheap & Chic Sunday night. "I'm very limby, and if I wear tight clothes they make me look like I'm a child pretending to be an adult." Still, Chung, a presenter of the daily music-based breakfast show "Freshly Squeezed," on England's Channel 4, likes variety. "I adore to put outfits together," she said. "After all, I used to want to be a fashion journalist."
GATHERING MOSS: Once the fashion folk have cleared out of Milan, Yves Saint Laurent will move in with its fashion message for regular folk, distributing on the street a newsprint advertising flyer to Milanese — and Londoners — starting on Saturday. A total of a million copies of YSL's latest "Manifesto," featuring images of Kate Moss from the spring-summer 2008 campaign shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, will also be distributed in Tokyo, in Paris during fashion week, and in Hong Kong in mid-April.
Large-scale images will be displayed in outdoor locations in New York, London and Hong Kong, while a "making-of" video will be posted on ysl.com, beginning Feb. 25.
SOMETHING BLUE: Alberta Ferretti pulled in her share of young actresses and socialites at her show on Monday, with red-headed former model and writer Jessica Joffe; German actress Bettina Zimmermann; aristocrat Lavinia Borromeo and Agnelli heir Ginevra Elkann in the front row. "I came straight from a friend's wedding in Venice to the show," said a dedicated Joffe.
EYE SPY: Something otherworldly, gleaming white with a purplish glow at night, has touched down in a car park in central Hong Kong — and select journalists throughout Asia have been watching it via live Web cam. It's Zaha Hadid's futuristic pavilion for Chanel's "Mobile Art" initiative, slated to open for visits later this month. The structure will house a series of multisensory installations inspired by the fashion house's iconic quilted, chain-handled accessory. Karl Lagerfeld and Hadid are expected to touch down in Hong Kong March 12 for a party to inaugurate the exhibition, which runs through April 5 before heading next for Tokyo. Meanwhile, Chanel has confirmed the venue for its cruise show in Miami on May 15: poolside at the Art Deco gem, the Raleigh Hotel.
BAGGING A STAR: Leather goods firm Lancel is ramping up the celebrity factor for its next campaign, having tapped acclaimed actress Isabelle Adjani. The campaign shoot is to take place in coming weeks and will be launched in France and Asia in May. Adjani is gearing up for a busy year, with three movies in the works, plus an album. French actress Alice Taglioni and Olympic swimmer Laure Manaudou have been featured in previous Lancel campaigns.
FERRAGAMO'S PAS DE DEUX: Under designer Massimiliano Giornetti, Ferragamo's men's wear has grown leaner, sharper and younger. Now the Italian fashion house has found the right face for its new image: Roberto Bolle. The La Scala principal dancer will star in Ferragamo's fall 2008 ad campaign. Mario Testino is set to shoot the portfolio in Italy later this spring. The Italian-born ballet whiz is expected at Ferragamo's fall show today in Milan. Don't expect him to leap and turn across the runway, though. That will happen next month when he performs on behalf of Ferragamo during the company's 80th anniversary celebration in Shanghai.
SUPER PREVIEW: Those who can't wait until May to see the Costume Institute's "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" exhibit can get a preview this Wednesday. The Metropolitan Museum of Art president Emily Rafferty, along with Giorgio Armani, the Costume Institute's Harold Koda and Vogue's Anna Wintour will hold a special press presentation to disclose more details of the exhibit. The event will feature five outfits from the show, including the Batman costume used for the upcoming Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" — as well as four looks from European designers inspired by the likes of Superman and Spider-Man. There's just one hitch: The event will take place at 8:30 a.m. at Milan's Teatro Manzoni.
FUCHSIA'S FIRST FILM: Fuchsia Kate Sumner, whose parents are Sting and his first wife, Frances Tomelty, is working with her favorite fashion label, Issa, to film a documentary on the making of the fall collection. "Lots of friends of mine are filmmakers, so hopefully I've learned through osmosis. I've always wanted to direct, but only last year had the confidence to do it," she said. Sumner's four-minute film, which includes backstage scenes prior to the show and insights into the collection's creation, was set to appear on the label's Web site after Thursday's runway show in London. It will mark an ongoing collaboration between Sumner and Issa's founder, Daniella Helayel, who also plans to create an original five-minute drama featuring the label's clothes. "I'm still learning — I'm not a seasoned director yet. This is my first attempt. Hopefully it will speak for itself."
LADY IN RED: The Golden Globes didn't happen there this year, but the Beverly Hilton ballroom will be the setting for the 10th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards today. To commemorate the anniversary, the first CDG Career Award Recipient, Bob Mackie, and this year's recipient, Ray Aghayan, designed a red gown for the evening's mistress of ceremonies, Anjelica Huston. Although Mackie and Aghayan have collaborated for decades on film and television projects, this marks the first time they have come together to design a gown for an award show. Among the evening's other honorees are Tom Cruise's producing partner, Paula Wagner (recipient of the Swarovski President's Award); costume designer Ruth Meyers (Lacoste Career Achievement in Film), and James Mangold and Cathy Konrad (Distinguished Director/Producer Award). Huston's gown eventually will be donated to Clothes Off Our Back to be auctioned for charity.

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Routing Security Training Course
With this training course, you will become familiar with the Internet Routing Registry and the RIPE NCC's routing-related services and tools.
After this course you will:
- Understand how to make Internet routing more secure and reliable with the information available in the Routing Registry and Resource Certification (RPKI) system
- Document your routing policy in the RIPE Database with RPSL
- Set up resource certificates
- Use resource certificates to create route origin authorisations (ROAs)
- Use ROAs in the BGP decision-making process
Who should attend:
You should attend this training course if you are part of the technical staff at a Local Internet Registry (LIR) in the RIPE NCC service region (such as network operator, engineer, etc.)
This course is not intended for administrative or management staff (such as hostmasters).
Course contents:
- Introduction to the Routing Registry
- The RIPE Database
- Hierarchical Authorisation
- Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
- RPSL in Practice
- Tools and Automation
- Resource Certification (RPKI)
- Route Origination Authorisations (ROAs)
- RPKI Validation
- Router Integration
- Running Your Own Certificate Authority
- Comparison Between RPSL and RPKI, and Between route Objects and ROAs
This course doesn't cover:
- The basics of routing, or any technical routing topics
- The basics of RIPE Database operations
- How to receive IP addresses from the RIPE NCC
- How to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR)
- Basic knowledge of the Internet registry system
- Basic experience in creating and updating objects in the RIPE Database
- Understanding of the BGP protocol and inter-domain routing
Please practice the creation of person objects in the Test Database because this will not be covered in the Routing Security Training Course:
- Link to Start-up tool (choose the source "TEST): http://apps.db.ripe.net/startup/
- More information: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support
- The Routing Security Training Course is based on hands-on practical exercises and demonstration of tools. Throughout the day, various exercises and demonstrations will get you familiar with the tools involved and allow you to practice your new skills.
- At the course, we hand out a USB stick containing the course material and a printed version of the slides.
The material you need to bring:
Please bring your laptop. This course is based on interactive exercises via a web browser. Your laptop should:
- Be able to connect to a wireless network
- Have a web browser installed
You can register as follows:
- Complete the application form.
- Send an email to training _at_ ripe _dot_ net. As it can take longer for us to deal with such mails, this is not the recommended way to register for a course.
We can only accept two people from the same LIR per training course. If more then two people apply, they will be placed on the waiting list and only admitted on the course if there are free places.
The costs of this course are covered by the LIR's membership fee. The course includes lunch and training materials. Travel expenses and accommodation during the training course are not included.
More details on the training course policies are available in the RIPE NCC LIR Training Registration Guidelines.
All Routing Security Training Courses are conducted in English.
We ask everyone to arrive by 09:00 for coffee. The course starts at 09:30 and finishes at 17:30.


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Painting Missouri
Illustrated Lecture by Artist and Author to Kick Off
Painting Missouri Exhibit at the Kansas City Public Library
Painting Missouri, a collection of landscapes by internationally known artist Billyo O'Donnell that depicts all 114 Missouri counties plus the city of St. Louis, will be on display starting Saturday, January 24, 2009 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
This exhibit of original oil paintings is the result of a seven-year collaboration between award-winning author Karen Glines, who researched and wrote the historical and descriptive text for the book, Painting Missouri: The Counties en Plein Air, published by the University of Missouri Press, and O'Donnell, whose reproductions of the paintings are featured in the book.
O'Donnell and Glines will present an illustrated lecture featuring images from the exhibit on January 28, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. in the Central Library.
O'Donnell created the paintings outdoors facing almost every weather element imaginable from sub-zero temperatures to 100-degree heat — to capture the essence of Missouri. His subjects include historic buildings, small town streetscapes, fields, streams, farmhouses, and barns. He is founder of the Artists Along the Katy Trail program and was selected as one of America's 50 Exceptional Plein Air Painters by The Haggin Museum in Stockton, California. His work is featured in collections in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
Admission is free to the exhibit and the kickoff presentation.


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Big Dick always creates an environment of tasteless innuendos and quick one-liners, handing down his talent, or curse, to his son, a son with a dry rub recipe who dreams of sharing it with the world. These two have come together to form Big Dick's Dry Rub Co., a truly tasteless name for a truly tasty rub. They always say if you are going to go into business for yourself, do what you love. Well we love to BBQ and we love to make people laugh.
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Jex Analytics has many years of experience with SEO and web analytics and can help you optimize your site and maximize your traffic. Jex Analytics has helped countless organizations get "out of the heap" and become a true web presence. Jex Analytics can tell you the answer to one important question… "Does my website work?"
Our focus is to create unique portraiture that reflects the personality of the subject. We pride ourselves in our bright, vibrant color images and our timeless black and whites. If you're looking for cookie-cutter family portrait "line-ups" or silly, cliche' wedding photos, we are not the studio for you. If you want something timeless, unique or quirky, we can help!
For the first time in 150 years the First family of Cloud County is opening up their rich farm land to a select group of outdoorsmen, and is taking applications for semi-guided hunting privileges for some of the best Whitetail, Pheasant, and Wild Turkey hunting in the state.
Hawg Clips are designed for the long trip rider and the rider who finds any reason (no matter how short the trip) to ride his motorcycle. They help keep the items that you need right at hand – right where you can reach them. Hawg Clips will hold anything that has a belt clip on it. So whether it is a cell phone, cup holder, IPOD or anything you can think up. Hawg Clips will keep it safe and available.


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Design and synthesis of combretastatin A-1 analogs, small molecule vascular disrupting agents, and bioreductive triggers as potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer. Nguyen, Benson Lee. (2011-01-05)Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States with over 550,000 deaths in 2009 and a devastating 7.9 million deaths worldwide in 2007. Vascular disrupting agents (VDAs) represent a novel method developed ...


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While calls continue for Gov. Nikki Haley to share details on her state roads plan, House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford put his cards on the table to help with the $29 billion shortfall in statewide repairs.
The Columbia Democrat said Wednesday that he plans to introduce legislation next year to allow casinos in the Myrtle Beach area to raise money for roads. He said that 80 percent of Democratic voters supported the idea in a non-binding question on the June 10 primary ballot.
Rutherford pitched the idea after hearing Haley, a Republican who is facing re-election this year, promise a roads fix but offer no specifics during a campaign press conference Tuesday.
"If you're going to have a plan, you need to have a plan," he told The State newspaper. "Here's one."
Rutherford agrees with Haley on trying to find ways to pay for roads without raising South Carolina's near national-low state gas tax.
"Anyone who loves individual freedom, personal liberty, and lower taxes should get behind this issue 110 percent," Rutherford said.
Rutherford said Myrtle Beach is perfect for casinos with the added attractions of the beach and dozens of golf courses as well as major roads, including the proposed I-73. The Grand Strand has more land to build a casino than other parts of the S.C. coast, he said. Rutherford could see the area accommodating up to three casinos.
The bill would allow only major casinos to avoid turning the state into "a gambling dump with slot machines in every gas station," he said.
The Grand Strand, the largest visitor destination in South Carolina's $17 billion tourism industry, already offers some gambling attractions. A pair of casino cruise boats that take gamblers to international waters already operate out of Little River, north of Myrtle Beach.
The Catawba Indian Nation has sought a casino on its York County reservation, but the state Supreme Court – citing laws banning video gambling – ruled against the state's only federally recognized Native American tribe this year
Democratic gubernatorial challenger Vincent Sheheen did not rule out casinos. The Camden attorney said "every option should be open for discussion" to pay for road repairs expected to cost more than $1 billion annually over the next 20 years.
"If we do consider casinos, however, there must be significant input from local citizens and leaders, as well as strict regulation and safeguards built into the proposal to ensure that South Carolinians are protected, and we don't do more harm than good," he said.
Haley opposes casinos.
"Legalizing gambling doesn't solve any problems – it creates them, and Gov. Haley believes South Carolina simply deserves better ideas than that," her spokesman Doug Mayer said. "The governor, like the majority of South Carolinians, doesn't support casino gambling and will never take any action that allows it to happen here."
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce leaders and several members of the General Assembly representing the Grand Strand did not respond for comment Wednesday.


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Now Playing: Basic Black - Not Just The Blues: Race and Mental Illness
Basic Black - Not Just The Blues: Race and Mental Illness
October 11, 2013
In the wake of the death of Miriam Carey, the woman who was shot to death by police after she led them on a high speed chase through Washington, DC, many questions have been raised about the state of Carey's mental health. There was also the recent tragedy of Aaron Alexis who murdered 12 people at the Navy Yard before being killed by police. Those incidents weren't related, but they both highlight the need for a further understanding of the historical and cultural aspects of mental health and communities of color.
- Callie Crossley, TV and radio host, WGBH
- Phillip Martin, senior reporter, WGBH News
- Kim McLarin, assistant professor of writing, Emerson College
- Peniel Joseph, professor of history, Tufts University
- Lisa Moore, clinical assistant professor, Boston University School of Social Work
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New Worm Steals User Data
Mimail variant lifts victim's files, spreads by raiding e-mail address book.
A new Internet worm that steals information from users' computers and tries to shut down two Web sites is spreading, antivirus vendors warn.
The worm, dubbed Mimail.C, is a variant of the W32.Mimail worm that surfaced in August. Antivirus software vendors rate the worm a "medium" level threat, indicating that it is infecting computers and spreading. Among the antivirus vendors weighing in on the threat are Symantec, F-Secure, and Network Associates.
All of the primary antivirus vendors say they have updated their software to protect customers against the newly discovered worm.
Mimail.C's Methods
Mimail.C was discovered Friday, the vendors say in bulletins on their Web sites. It arrives as an e-mail nessage with "our private photos" in the subject line and an attached .zip archive file called "photos.zip."
The sender's address is faked to be "james" at the receiver's domain and the body of the message promises revealing photos of a girl at a beach, the antivirus vendors say.
The worm with its attachment was mass-mailed, which most likely started its propagation, according to an alert from Network Associates.
Opening Activates
Infection starts when the recipient unpacks the "PHOTOS.JPG.EXE" file from the attachment and runs it. The worm will harvest e-mail addresses from the user's PC to mail copies itself to additional recipients. It will also send information captured from applications the user has open to certain e-mail addresses programmed into the malicious code, the antivirus companies say.
The worm will also attempt to launch a denial of service attack on Web sites at darkprofits.com and darkprofits.net, the vendors say. Both sites were unreachable Friday afternoon.
Sealed with a kiss, new e-mail virus spreading Reuters News Service
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new e-mail virus started spreading to corporate computers Friday and is headed for home computers, but computer security experts said they expect the outbreak to wind down over the weekend.
Antivirus software maker Trend Micro said tens of thousands of its corporate computer users in France and Germany had been hit by the virus, dubbed "Mimail.C".
The e-mail was spreading quickly because it spoofs e-mail addresses in address books, making it appear as if the virus-carrying e-mail comes from a friend or co-worker, said Raimund Genes, European president of Trend Micro.
Trend and Network Associates rated the virus a medium threat, upgrading it from a low-level threat because of the large number of infections being reported within a short time, said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Network Associates' antivirus response team.
The virus arrives in a compressed file via e-mail with a subject line of "our private photos." The message text says: "All our photos which i've made at the beach ... " and is signed "Kiss, James."
The attack appeared to have been targeting four Web sites with the name "darkprofits," according to Network Associates.


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For vodka brands, bottle design may be more important than taste, Affinnova says
Vodkas in newly designed bottles are gaining market share, sometimes at the expense of long-time brands that rely on traditional packaging, says Affinnova Inc., a Waltham company that has repurposed algorithms initially developed for genetic research to help consumer-products companies better understand their markets.
Affinnova said it conducted a "Package Design Audit'' that included evaluations of popular vodkas by 500 US vodka drinkers.
"Results showed that up and coming brands Belvedere and Pinnacle are leveraging bold and unique package designs to gain market share,'' the company said in a press release.
And because advertising is increasingly fragmented, packaging has become more important, Affinnova president and chief executive Waleed Al-Atraqchi said in a statement. According to Affinnova, bottle design can even trump taste.
"Design remains one of the most underleveraged assets a company has in launching and maintaining a successful brand,'' he said. "As advertising becomes increasingly fragmented and has less impact on consumers, packaging must work harder to build brand equity and drive purchases. Advanced marketers need to monitor how package design is impacting shelf presence and consumer perception and respond accordingly, much in the same way they actively measure and adjust other aspects of their marketing performance.''
One audit finding: Stale packaging can lead to brand erosion.
Affinnova has worked with such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Pfizer, and Walmart.


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Give your cat a nose-to-tail exam, making sure that its ears and teeth are clean and odorless, fur is free of parasites, skin is lump- and bump-free, and weight has remained stable.
Horses have it. Birds, fish and even mollusks do too. The "it" is personality, something that both you and your cat radiate nearly every waking moment. But exactly what is personality, does this people-centric term applies to non-human animals and can it be changed?
"Personality is a complex of behavioral traits that go together without obvious reason," says Sander van Doorn, PhD, a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and one of the world's leading experts on the evolution of personality in animals. He says such traits are what help to characterize uniqueness among individuals. In other words, no two cats or humans -- not even among identical twins -- think and behave exactly alike.
Evidence for Personality in AnimalsDr. van Doorn and his colleagues have studied various animals, birds and insects over the years. They've determined most provable critter characteristics fall under two sets of descriptions: risk prone and risk adverse, and flexible and rigid. Risk prone people and animals tend to be bold, brazen and relatively fearless. Risk adverse individuals are the opposite, acting wary and timid under the many situations they perceive as threatening.
Flexible people and cats are easy-going and have somewhat malleable characters under certain circumstances. For example, a flexible feline may not mind a change of toys or scenery, but a more rigid cat or person is clearly set in its ways and habits.
Tanya Williams, cat caretaker at the Humane Society of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, knows the various feline types well. "We have a sweet cat named Lydia up for adoption who is so loving and non-aggressive," Williams says. "She loves attention and is very quiet and mellow."
"Then we have another cat, which we named Alien Baby," she adds. "As soon as you open his cage, he jumps on you. He's full of energy and needs to be loved in his own way. He likes to be hugged a lot."
What Creates Personality?According to Dr. van Doorn and other scientists who have studied personality, differences in character and temperament seem to emerge from three different sources:
Genetic. All creatures born of a mother and father emerge into the world with unique sets of DNA. This is the cellular material that carries information to "program" our tissue growth, hormones, brain activity and all bodily happenings. Identical twin humans or kittens have identical genes.
Environmental. The location and conditions under which you and your cat were raised and now live also can affect personality, the researchers have determined. For example, a cat living under stressful conditions might develop fears that a feline lounging in a literal lap of luxury might not develop.
Social. Then there are the moment to moment factors that seem to shape our characters. Dr. van Doorn attributes some of these to status and breeding position changes. "Hover wasp males at the bottom of their breeding hierarchy tend to be more aggressive," he says. "If they rise to the top, gaining more responsibility and having more to lose, they become more risk adverse." In cats, a similar phenomenon happens to pregnant females. An otherwise carefree female feline might settle down more when she has kittens. People do this too, when they settle into stable relationships and/or start a family.
Different Breeds, Different PersonalitiesBecause selective breeding helps to control the spread and exchange of genes, domesticated animals, like cats, dogs and horses, often exhibit personality traits linked to their breed. Here are a few identifiable characteristics among select cat breeds, as compiled by the Humane Society of Southeast Texas:
American shorthair: easy-going, companionableAngora: adaptable, loyalBombay: quiet, easy-going, likes frequent pettingMaine coon: active, flexibleManx: affectionate, smartPersian: loving, companionable, quietRussian blue: companionable, gentle, affectionateSiamese: high maintenance, smart, active, very social
How to Bring Out the Best in Your CatSince environmental and social cues help to shape personality, in many instances you contribute to molding your cat's character. Here are six ways you can help guide your feline into becoming the best it can be:
Jennifer Viegas is the managing editor of The Daily Cat. She is a journalist for Discovery News, the news service for the Discovery Channel, and has written more than 20 books on animals, health and other science-related topics.
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Brenda says: My 17 year old female, Baby kitty has her favorite mouse toy that she picks up in her mouth and wanders around the house yowling crazy and the only thing that stops her is when we talk to her and then she comes over for some lov'in. My 10 year old male George likes to sit in the closet and "yell" at our clothes. They have both done this for years, does anyone know why?
Miss P says: sigh, i wish i understood what makes these animals tick. my two tabbies are totally different in personality. the male is overall a good natured, patient, animal. He will curl up and he talks too. the female orange tabby is sweet too, much younger in her personality, but she's also vicious and a little crazy. That's what I don't understand about her... she goes from zero to psycho like rapidly. Funny thing too, she terrorizes the male cat who's twice her size! go figure... it shows personality makes a difference in humans and animals too.
Mary says: My almost 1yr old female cat who was spayed at 6 months still periodically takes poop out of her box and bats it around the house as a toy. How can I get her to stop? Also, She will sleep on my bed with me but at first she was right at my shoulder then as she got older she is at the foot of the bed with my almost 2 yrs old male neutered cat. The problem is every morning around 2:30 3am she starts circling my head nuzzles next to me and licks my arm my face in my ear. This morning she pulled my earring off and bit my toes.I know she wants loving and gets pleanty during the day before work and after. When these things happen I make her leave the room and then I am kept awake with whining and scratching at the door she even destroyed my carpet at the door. The male cat is usually still resting at the end of the bed or he decides to leave the room and get some rest elsewhere.
Aside from not allowing either of them in the room It is also not fair to the male cat to not be allowed on the bed with me. It is his favorite place. what can I do to solve this problem? Please help!
margie says: My Cats Leg Is swollen Up. She Jumps The Fence All The time. But Now She Is In Pain Cause Its swollen.What Can I Do For It? The Vet Cant Do Anythng But I Can If I Know Thank You Margie
heidi helmick says: I have a male cat who is a very strange cat. He can be very aloof and not wanting attention, biting me for no apparent reason,then demanding attention. what should I dO? He is getting worse at the biting.
cheryl says: i have had my cat since she was six weeks old she is spayed when any one drives by our house she darts up under the bed.she has never let me hold her,if i reach to pet her she runs up under the bed.sometimes she will sit next to me on the couch and let me brush her.she does not meow,why isnt she affectionate.i love a lap kitty.she wont let me hold her.
Beryl Gerhard says: We have a sweetie of a female cat--9 1/2 yr. old who has been the only cat in the house and used to being wherever we are. Now we will be taking in a 3 yr. old female who has belonged to my daughter and lived in an apartment with 2 dogs. What is the best way to get them acclaimated to each other? I their both being females going to cause additional problems?
Jody says: My cat is about 7yrs old female and long hair. She is either urinating around the house or when she does go to the litter box could it be on her hair still and that what making the smell? should wwe cut her fur? I don't know what to do.
heather says: I have an orange tabby. He is very playful and loving but he meows all the time. I don't understand why. He also meows when he is asleep(he will wake up and meow and fall back asleep).
kimr1956 says: My 9 year old cat (who was an only child for most of his life) was greatly offended by 2 male kittens we adoped last year, he is hatefull, but doesn't harm them. He is so territorial that he will "mark" the walls and furniture just about anywhere in the house to claim "his space".
I have read ads for "natural" herbal remedies to put in his food or water - has anyone tried these and do they work ?
My sister swears that a shot of femle hormone (from a vet)settled her older male cat down in a similar situation.
Anyone tried that ?
June Dorman says: Our female cat, Gizmo, has
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L Hunt says: I had to trap these kittens off the roof of the house, I kept 2 of them. They were skittish for a few weeks and kept them caged to get used to me. Now they are so human! I always say hugs and loves and kisses and I get hugs w/there paws on my neck, Love and they nod there head in my neck and face and they actually give lick kisses! One likes to always sit on my shoulder while I'm sitting and I swear she thinks she's a bird! They always fight over who is going to sit or sleep where w/me. I have never let them outside so they like looking out the window, but never try and get out the door. They are so careful when they walk over my junk on the tables that they don't knock anything over, which is just amazing to me! They just seem so human. I love em to death....
jasmine dawkins says: all of the cats that i have gotten have ran away
every month and some dieing alot im startting to get scared and wondering why rthey running away from thus house?
Mary Anne says: I have 2 cats - both volunteers - about 2 years apart. Sam - youngest, all black, very sickly when he first came around - is now like Bam Bam. He is strong. Sam is very loving. He "gets into" the kneading thing. But he goes for my throat. His little nails quickly make this uncomfortable for me. I place my hands like a barrier and allow him to continue kneading into my fingers. He literally wraps his little toes around my fingers and squeezes. He seems to be able to continue this act for a long time. Is he o.k? Is he communicating something other than affection?
Rico's Mommy says: Great site! You can go online to acatnamedrico to read about how I try to figure out my 2 cats and their behavior!
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moogie says: My cat immediately took a liking to my dad. Literally, first time he ever came to visit. It's like she knew he was my father and that meant he wasn't going to kill her and eat her. She plays with him, lets him pet her, and often sleeps by his door. It's weird. I've had her for 5 years, she was 4 months old when I adopted her. She doesn't let anyone touch her (accept me). At one point I had a roomate. It took my cat 6 months to finally come lounge in the living room with us. She still never allowed herself to be touched. What gives? Do cats recognize blood relationships?
Deborah says: If your cat is not fixed yet and he is going through "puberty" or coming of age then he's probably raging with adolescent hormones like my cat was. He was relly mellow and loving prior to hitting puberty then all of the sudden he became aggressive towards our 13 year female docile kitty and biting my head (mating rituals). Duh! We made a vet appt. and that wasthe end of that problem.
Patsy Hall says: I have 2 cats, the one calico I have jumped on my head, and scratched the daylight on my scalp, face,throat and arm. What happened was I had a real sevre episode of Vertigo and fell on my bed, I'm sure I was moaning, because I was so nauseated. After she scratch me, I just laid there on the carpet by my bed and was bleeding so bad I couldn't see the numbers on the phone. I love Patch with my whole heart, but I don't understand why she attacked me. Please help, thank you, Pat
Sevi says: Both of you have cats in heat. Unless you really really want kittens, you need to call your vet and get her spayed. And make very sure she doesn't get outside! If they can't do it right away, the vet should be able to give you the best advice on what to expect in terms of how long and if there's anything you can do in the meantime.
Rafaelo and Melinin says: Pita, my cat, she is a stray cat. She has been living with us for 2 months now. She is very friendly, playful, easygoing and very loveable. My concern is that two weeks ago she started to pee on our bed when we are asleep. So far she has done it two times early in the morning, first she plays with our feet and the she does it. Today, she didn't pee exactly, she "spray" pee on my face, that how she woke me up in the mornimg. What does this behavior mean?
Holly says: we have a older female orange tabby cat. For the past 4 years she has started carrying shoes in her mouth, and yowling at the same time. We,ve caught her even carying them up stairs. Does anyone know the purpose of this?
kelly says: WE'VE HAD A STRAY KITTEN FOR AWHILE, SHE'S ABOUT 3 MOS. OLD. FOR THE LAST THREE DAYS SHE'S BEEN CRYING AND ELEVATING HER BACK AND SHE WANTS PETTED ALL THE TIME. WHAT IS HER PROBLEM? I'D REALLY LIKE AN ANSWER.
Paul Houck says: my cat just become aggresive to me and wants to bite me.She stalkes me and growles at me.should i take her to vets?Or put her down.i'm 68yrs old and i'm affraid of her.she's 4yrs old Breed:(Raggamufin)
Laurie Lovasco says: hi my name is laurie. I have a cat named trish. she is 7months old and she went into hteat. right now she is starting not even 3 weeks agoagain as of today. she is being fixed in march.get her fixed a soon as possible. It is very hard for anybody to go through this. Good Luck! Laurie.
Ray Wood says: I have a calico cat about 15 months old. She is female but we had her spade. She has developed the habit of coming up to me or my wife when we are in our chairs. She sets and looks at us until we get up and go with her to her food bowls. We then tell her what good food she has and then we pet her on the head and she begins to eat. Its like she is asking permission to eat. She is wearing us out. She does this all day long. She also does it to be let out of the house. How do I change this behavior.
JULIE says: what does it mean if our female kittens suckle on themselves or each other? We have two 8 mo old female sisters - kittens - and one suckles repeatedly on herself, and sometimes her sister suckles on her too, as if they are nursing? They do this so often that the her fur color is black, but now it is lightening in color. Does this mean something?
Brianna says: I just got a new tabby and she has been under the bed for a week now. She is very affectionate when I pet her but ONLY under the bed- WHAT DO I DO??
Gail S. Hairston says: My 5 month female kitten has been meowing constantly for the past few days. She also slides around onnthe floor and arches up her rear end. She is an indoor cat and has not been fixed. Is she in heat? How long will this last. What can I do about it?
Mommyfeet says: I have a beautiful all white male cat that's about a year old who has a bad habbit of nipping when he's not gettng the attention he wants. He doesn't show any other signs of "aggitation" when this happens. But it's more his "demand" on getting more pets. I used to allow him to sleep in my bed but he would stand on my chest and meow inches from my face at 6am, and then nip at my wrists and ancles if the meowing didn't work. NOT a fun way to wake up. I ended up locking him out of my bedroom due to that behavor. He obviously isn't waking me anymore, but he still nips at times. Especially if I give him attention frequently. So far when he does it.. I pin him down using my hand like a cat and then physically push him away giving him no attention. However, he still nips. Should I continue pinning and using "no attention for you" tactics or try something else? We have three other cats in the house, and they all enjoy my attention so I make it a point to give them all time. His nipping though just has to stop. Any suggestions?
andrea says: I found a kiiten about anout 4 wks old and brought him home. It's been two months and my other 2 female cats (2 yrs old) are fighting with him and hurting him. Any suggestions?
Dana says: i have my cat for about a year and a half now, and when we got her, someone found her in the woods when she was only about 1 month. We have had her ever since, and she is very loveable when you can get her or when she wants you. She will lay right infront of you acting as if she wants you to either pet her or pick her up and every time you lean into her she runs the other way. is there anything that i can do to get her to be more sociable or loveable? maybe even stop her from being such a freak at times?
nonamie says: Your cat is in heat! that is why you have the crazy behaivor. If you don't want little ones you better get her fixed or be prepared to deal with crazy for a long while.
Stacy Curby says: I have had mt cat for about a year now. She has never been one to sleep in my bed with me. But, the past week she is constantly following me around and she has to be laying by me where ever I'm sitting or laying down at. It's normal for her to want loving from me. Usually when she wants loving from me though she's up in my face. Now, she rubs across my belly. If anyone knows please help me. Thank you.
Jenn says: I have a cat that I call mama, who had a baby by c section a little over 2 years ago. For the past few months I've noticed that the mama cat will use her litter box during the day but at night she urinates on my stove. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop.
Jessica says: Ever since we got my cat, at the age of 6 weeks. She hisses and spits at mexicans I cant have any of my friends over. One time she got out of our room and pined a mexican in the corner of the hall, and she was not going to let him go. I don't no what to do with her. I guess i am just going to have to deal with it.
Kathie Kleinsmith says: I have a ten year old female cat, siamese mix, recently we adopted an 8 month male black cat. The problem is Fiesty has been pooping in our bedroom on the carpet and urinating in the middle of the bed. And pooping on our bay window sill. She has never acted like this before in the other adoptens (2 females). We have literally had to close off the bedroom to all the cats due to this behavior, what is happening here? Why would she suddenly start this behavior? Will it stop? Please help us, we don't want to get rid of her she's always been my baby.
Jerry Levinson says: My cat will bite a hand placed in front of his face when he's standing. I can stroke his back, but he doesn't want his head touched. However, once he gets on top of me, he enjoys having his cheeks rubbed like a normal cat.
Jessica says: I have two adorable boy kitties that have a wonderful personalities. One is very laid back and his brother is very spunky. The spunkier one has recently started bringing me my roommates' belongings. He will bring me their bath towels, socks, shirts, etc. He does not do this with my husband though. Is there meaning behind this or is he just trying to be helpful?
Dianne Sawyer says: I have three cats Little Bitty, Billy and Rita, and have introduced a fourth, Hazel, an 8 week old. It has been 6 weeks now and two of the cats have accepted Hazel. But Rita is not having any of it. She even hisses at me and runs away. I evidentally did not do all the right things when I brought in Hazel, but do you think Rita will ever accept her and me again? Rita has always been the alpha cat. But I really miss her. Any suggestions?
Gina Gallagher says: We have 3 cats in the household. Ralph(11), Sam & Frodo (brothers,1.5 yrs). We adopted "Abby" an 11 yr old golden 3 yrs ago. Frodo has taken to urinating on her bed. We have bought 3 in the last 2 months and he insists on urinating on them. We can lay a blanket or sleeping bag on the floor for her because she really loves a bed, and he doesn't do anything to them. He started doing this around Thanksgiving. He gives off a loud screech and looks at me and when I look over at the bed, it's too late! What is up with him?
Cindy Johnson says: My cat has always loved water! But now she has started playing in the dogs water bowls that sit on HARD wood floor at night time, so i find the mess in a.m. and during the day she will get in the water. Her bowls sit on the dryer which she loves when on. She plays in hers too. They all have clean water. How do i make her stop. she puts both front paws in the bowl and splashes. Help
yungdrung1 says: is she nursing the tail, or is she biting/chewing? sometimes it's only a matter of needing a bit of a security blanket, like kneading - a regression. if it's a real chewing, look to see if there's anything like a hot spot of some kind there. some people put a bit of 'bitter green apple' on the area to dissuade chewing.
yungdrung1 says: cats feel threatened usually, when a person, especially a strange one, looks them in the eye. and, if you slowly blink at a cat if he;s looking at your eyes, he might soften and blink back...a cat 'hello'. also, cats are very sensitive to humans' body language, and it might be that the person moves too fast and strongly in the direction of the cat. OR, maybe he feels secure and wants to play with this person. what was the cat doing...sleeping? eating? just resting? cats are as individual as we are, and may not even react to the same person the same way twice. best to move slowly without staring, around an unfamiliar cat.
yungdrung1 says: there are several warning communications that cats give before action of that kind, ears back or flattened:watch out. tail thrashing back and forth, watch out (opposite of dawgs'); eyes - sometimes pupils change shape/size quickly; fur on back of spine, and sometimes on tail will stand up...watch out. tail low, with just tip slowly twitching, watch out.whiskers move from front spread out to towards the back. cats communicate with their bodies...learn all the signals.
yungdrung1 says: it will take intro the dawwg slowly, or ...didn't he ask you first? now yyou're back to sq one, and need to quietly intro the dawg to the cat, put the dawg into a crate where he can't scare or attack the cat, and let the cat sniff the dawg. read up on cat/cat...cat/dog/ intros in any good book on cats. that's an awfully scary thing to do to a cat... i'm so sorry for your cat. your boyfriend doesn't understand animals, does he.
leta rosetree says: i've had the same experience...usually a cat uses the position of 'four and 30' (four sets of claws and 30 teeth) as defense...to rake the attacker's belly with the feet. and cats are individuals, some will love soft stroking on the belly, others it signals attack mode. fine out what your individual cats' catsonality is.
leta rosetree says: sometimes cats can only take so much play before it turns into prey and hunter. NEVER use your hands as a toy...what you would see is a definite prey response...keep a toy handy, and if it appears that bites are imminent, quickly substitute the toy and get your hands out of there!
leta rosetree says: to intro a new cat/kitten, have a friend bring the newbie into your livingroom in a carrier, and set it down, then just start talking to your friend, ignoring the cats. the old boy should start sniffing the new one in the carrier. then let the new one out in a small space, like bathroom, and let them sniff each other under the door. rub each one with a towel, then switch towels, so they each can sniff what the other smalls like. after about a week of this they should be ready for a bit of face to face. if not, back to sq one. you can also feed them next to each other, while the newbie is in the carrier, then after a few days, with both outside carrier. supervise the meetings for a few days,to make sure theyare ok. and if you show no preference for the newbie right away, everything should be ok.
yungdrung1 says: get her to a vet to be sure she doesn't have a bladder/urinary infection. if it turns into a blockage it could be life-threatening
Elaine Waters says: My cat, Lucy, who is 8 months old, likes to curl up in my lap, curl her tail around herself and nurse the tail mid ways up. What is the reason for this? Thank you, Elaine
Ross says: I have an all black cat, his name is Jamal. My worry is that he runs from people sometimes and other times he wants them to pick him up or play. When I say run I mean run like he's going to die if he doesn't get away. I hope he's not crazy in his head, it just seems a little wierd to me but other than that he's a sweetheart. Maybe you would have a clue on why he's like this?
Bobbi says: Betty, your cat is most likely going into her first heat, as this happens between 4-6 months. Please take her to be spayed.
Cats can get "over stimulated and will get aggressive. Watch for signs like tension and tail twitching which will occur before the bite. When your cats tail twitches or his body becomes tense, stop petting to avoid being bitten.
Hope this helps :)
~ Bobbi and the furkid crew ~
Krista says: I have two cats, boots and tigger I have had tigger since he was a kitten. Boots was a stray it took me about six months to get her to come out. She would hide under the bed or couch. I moved about six months ago and she was starting to come out, but my boyfriend brought a dog home and now she hides under the couch, wont come out to eat or go to the litter box. How do I deal with this?
Allison says: i dont understand my cat, she loves having her tummy rubbed and gets mad if you don't when she rolls over. my other cat will atack me if i touch her tummy as does any other cat i have ever been around. so whats up with her? does she think she is a dog? weirdo
Wilson says: How do I introduce the new kitten to an older male tabby without the resident cat becoming angry/jealous. Would you suggest a male or female kitten?
Cissy says: I have two cats.. And they are both sooo sweet, in their own ways. Ace yells in excitement anytime I come home, be it all day at work, or ten minutes at the store. And he loves to "groom" his people. Almost anyone will get a lick. :)
Sam, is very lovey. He IS high maintenence, and you can see the intelligence in his eyes, he's a typical Siamese, I guess. But his favorite way to sleep is with his head resting on my face. And I love it! It tells me he loves me. Just like Ace does every time he gives me "kisses".
donna fine says: my cats has recently began to bite for no provoked reason i can't understand his behavior i've done nothing but give him love
betty says: i have an orange tabby and she is 4 months ,and lately she has been run like crazy acting really strange meowing every second on the second and i have no idea what is wrong with her she even urinated in the living room i am confused she never has acted like that.
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Posting the best team score in program history, the Carthage girls golf team finished second Wednesday in the Jim Pearson Memorial golf tournament at Horton Smith Golf Course in Springfield.
Carthage shot a 345 on the day, while Kickapoo won the tournament with a team score of 334. Joplin finished third at 360, Lebanon and Republic tied at 365, Greenwood finished at 408, Glendale shot a 416 and Nixa finished with a score of 419.
Courtney Catron and Emily Pence each shot 85 to tie for ninth place in the field of 48. Kelsey frost shot an 87, Lindsay Borland shot an 88, and Abbey Catron finished with a 97.
"Our best scores were tied for ninth overall but our team was very consistent," head coach Lowell Catron said. "That's a great thing. Emily had her best round ever. Lindsay Borland had her best round ever. Kelsey Frost had her best round ever. When you're having your best scores in golf and they're during a tournament, that's pretty remarkable and I think so far just about everybody on the team has had a career-best round."
Catron said he was especially proud of Pence, who played in a sudden death playoff Tuesday night to earn the spot on the varsity team for Wednesday's tournament.
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Catron said the team plays well under pressure, but it's pressure the players are putting on themselves.
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As you probably heard, between 40 and 50 inches of snow fell in the Washington, D.C., area in early February. The record snowfall brought the entire mid-Atlantic region to a halt-paralyzing the government, this time for snow.
A Washington Post online headline captured it: "Senate climate change hearings canceled because of storm."
The people most inconvenienced by the blizzards weren't the residents of this region, or the senators-it was the proponents of man-made global warming. Scientists and activists insisted that people on this side of the Atlantic ignore the evidence in their driveways and, instead, trust their computer models.
Not only did they tell us that this winter's weather didn't disprove their global warming data, they told us that the record snows were caused by global warming. Really!
Of course, 10 years ago, they told us that, on account of the same global warming, "snow is starting to disappear from our lives." We were told that, because of all that nasty CO2, British children "just aren't going to know what snow is."
Ten years later, they most certainly do. Not only British children, but children in every state except Hawaii. All of Britain, much of the rest of Europe, and the United States have experienced snowfalls this winter. The data suggests, in fact, that "snow is coming earlier and heavier than it used to."
If all of the white stuff hasn't left you doubting those computer models, maybe Phil Jones can help you. That would be ironic since, until recently, Jones was the director of the Climate Research Unit at Britain's East Anglia University. He was the keeper of the data upon which the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based its predictions-data that has been, to put it mildly, called into question.
In an interview with the BBC, Jones acknowledged that there has been no significant warming since 1995. Let me repeat that. One of the world's leading global warming advocates says there has been no significant warming since 1995. Fifteen years.
He also indicated that there is nothing exceptional about the warming the occurred between 1979 and 1995. He even admitted that is was possible that it might have been warmer during the pre-industrial Middle Ages than it is now.
If all of that sounds familiar, it ought to. Those very points have been made by global warming skeptics and reported frequently on BreakPoint. If there has been no significant warming during a period when the models predicted exactly that, or if the world was warmer 1000 years ago before we started burning fossils fuels, then maybe these models, just maybe, are wrong.
And threatening us with global catastrophe and upsetting children with pictures of drowning animals becomes unconscionable.
Of course, neither Jones nor his fellow advocates will admit that. As Jones also acknowledged, the IPCC tends to leave "inconvenient findings" out of its reports.
Why? It's a matter of worldview.
Activists and scientists have too much invested in human-caused global warming. For activists, it's the threat by which they can create their version of a better world, and scientists have staked their careers and reputations on the accuracy of those computer models.
Given what's at stake, inconvenient snow and cold has to be explained away. Assuming, that is, the people who do so can get out of their driveways.


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- Voice Actors: Fabian, Hans Conried.
- Directed By Gerard Baldwin, Frank Braxton, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, Paul Harvey, Jim Hiltz; more Directors ...
- Produced By Jay Ward, Bill Scott, Ponsonby Britt O.B.E.
- Animated By Bob Bachman, Howard Baldwin, Herman Cohen, Phil Duncan, Bob Goe, Fred Madison, Bob Maxfield, Gary Mooney, Barrie Nelson, Jack Schnerk, Rod Scribner, Alan Zaslove.
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I have been able to show top countries with most views for the given date range like below
I now would like to show how the total views has changed for those countries YoY. ie. if my selected dates are between 2015-01-01 to 2015-04-01 ( first quarter of 2015). I want to see the % change in the total views for those countries compared to the first quarter of 2014 ( one year before selected date range).
I know that you could use pivot_offset to compare YoY just based on the year like suggested in https://discourse.looker.com/t/using-offset-and-pivot-offset-in-table-calculations-3-18/651 64 . but how to restrict so that my YoY comparison takes into account the values set in the date filter ? As far as I see we cannot access the values supplied in filter in the calculated fields? Please advice if there is a way of doing this.
I haven't tested it, but I think something along the lines of the following should work —
— if you filter on
in the first quarter of 2015, include
in your query, and pivot on year. Good luck, and let us all know how it goes.
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notation is MySQL; your dialect may have something different to add an interval to a datetime.
Hi Rashmi.
The trick here is that you want to filter on dates within each year but across multiple years. This is a great use case for
. So if you add a timeframe like
to the dimension_group ds you can filter on that and the timeframe in which you are interested.
If you want more granular control over the intra-year time you could use timeframes like
Thanks Michael ! I don't know if I properly understood your proposed solution. But as I understand this won't work because when we apply the filter and select say first 2 months of 2015, then that will restrict the output of the query to only those 2 months of the year 2015 no matter what you have in the dimension or dimension_group definition. Also, when you write templated filters, you always specify sql_or_lookml_reference inside the condition. So I don't think you can specify a sql expression like (${TABLE}.ds + interval 1 year) within it.Please let me know if I misunderstood your suggestion.
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Good grief, my photography has dramatically improved since I first posted this. It's time to re-shoot this recipe, which is one of myfaves.
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I think that the reason I've tuned out of her show, in the last couple of years, is that I noticed a lot of recipes were repeats of others I had made. With that said, I happened to catch Rachael Ray's show when I was home on a school holiday. Pork marsala-- that intrigued me. So, I watched the show and realized that I had an unopened bottle of marsala, a frozen pork tenderloin and I try to keep a bag of Trader Joe's Pappardelle Pasta (a long wide egg noodle). All I needed was some fresh cremini mushrooms, and I was all set!
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Then I used my offset meat pounder (you can use a heavy skillet, but I'm a gadget freak) and gave the meat a good whack:
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hello, I'm 17 and vegan for a year, now raw for 1 month. I would like to have advice and exercises to refine my stomach muscles and also buttocks. here are some photos:
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You seem to be in great shape. Advice I would ask direct questions posted to individuals threads.
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Good work! My advice is to set long term goals and focus on health and fitness and not get consumed with "perfecting" what at this point is an aesthetic preference.
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The F Bomb's Julia Zeilinger scored an interview with Gloria Steinem for Huffington Post. And, like most interviews with the oracle of feminism, it ends up illuminating the interviewer a little more than the interviewee.
Because, really, what can you ask Gloria Steinem? She's lived more than half her life in the public eye. So, Zeilinger can indulge in the experience of meeting her idol — something she admits to Nikki Darling came about as a result of some family connections — without too much worry about how to acquit herself.
But she acquits herself nicely, asking Steinem about why it is that so many people don't like the word feminism.
Ms. Steinem says that people don't understand it, and people are afraid of it. But when you know you are one, when you know you are proud enough of your gender to support yourself and fight for yourself and others, you have to stand up and say it, to encourage others.
Since that is pretty close to what Zeilinger herself has said about it, she gets a little more comfortable.
She asks Steinem to speculate about the future after feminism.
"The future is organic," she says. "Suppose we want more equality in the future, which we want, and less violence and more humor and joy and love and poetry and whatnot. So put it in this present." And she's right. "If we reflect what we hope for in the future in what we do everyday," she continues, "Then we don't exactly know what's going to happen, but we can be more sure that it will look like what we're hoping for."
Zeilinger isn't exactly where to go with that, but she plows forward nonetheless, asking Steinem about men.
"When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them," she says. "They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity."
The patriarchy affects men, too!
Steinem also talks about intersectionality, decried by some feminists of her generation as a distraction from achieving goals here.
"I think the advantages are that we are not nationalistic, we feel loyalty to groups of women in other countries that may be greater than we feel to our own government because their lives have more in common with our lives than Bush, to put it mildly," Ms. Steinem points out. "So, that's an advantage, to be able to organize internationally and to support each other internationally."
Who knew how much Moe Tkacik would have in common with Gloria Steinem?
Finally, Zeilinger asks her if she can give some advice for young feminists, and Steinem naturally obliges.
"If I have any advice, it's just to listen to your own unique self and make sure you have support for it," she says. "Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. At least spend as much time as possible with people who make you feel smart, who make you feel good, who support you in that role, and help you become who you already are." She pauses for a moment. "This culture in general is much too much saying that we have to do what's out there rather than what's in here. It needs to be a balance. It isn't that we're more important than anybody else as an individual, but we're not less important either."
Which is good advice for more than just teenage feminists.
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Kansans mark statehood, dedicate Capitol
13-year renovation cost almost $330M
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has formally saluted the revamped Kansas Statehouse, dedicating the building's renovation to what he called "the glory of God and the people of the great state of Kansas."
Brownback was joined at the Capitol Wednesday by historical re-enactors, current and former legislators and hundreds of Kansas residents to formally dedicate the updated building on the 153rd anniversary of statehood.
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This extra easy baked oatmeal recipe with fresh strawberries, bananas and rich chocolate is one of our favorites. Jump to the Baked Oatmeal Recipe now or watch our quick recipe video showing you how we make it.
We love this recipe so much because you can make it the morning of or, if you're short on time, prepare it the night before and bake in the morning.
It's really flexible, too. Feel free to play with the add-ins to our recipe. We love adding strawberries, banana and chocolate, but add whatever you love. Or, add that odd amount of nuts, raisins or cranberries left in your pantry from another recipe. It's up to you!
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: This oatmeal casserole was so popular, we created our Blackberry Baked Oatmeal drizzled with a quick caramel sauce. It's flavored with lemon zest, nutmeg and packed with juicy blackberries! We know you'll love it.
How to Make the Best Oatmeal in the Oven
There's something special about entertaining in the morning — it's casual, laid back and really can start the off right. Just picture this: baked oatmeal recipe next to a a plate of crispy oven baked bacon or (if serving a crowd) these Breakfast Enchiladas with Ham and Peppers.
If you take a read through the comments below, you'll see so many who have shared this baked oatmeal recipe with family or friends. Some have even taken it to work.
You can mix all of the ingredients the night before cooking and then bake in the morning. If you do this, place bananas on the bottom of the dish and not on top of the oats since they may brown slightly over night.
Some readers have tried freezing the oatmeal: After mixing everything together, tightly cover the oatmeal or pour into resealable plastic bags and freeze for up to one month. Then, when you want to bake the oatmeal, just remove from freezer, thaw and bake as directed. If you decide to do this, we suggest that you mix the fruit into the oatmeal instead of placing on top to prevent browning – especially the bananas.
Recipe Substitutions
This baked oatmeal recipe is easily adapted for dairy-free and egg-free diets. While we call for one egg in the recipe, we have had success removing the egg completely. Another easy substitution is replacing soy, almond or even coconut milk for the milk called for in the original recipe.
You can, of course, change the fruit and chocolate in the recipe, too. To reduce calories or level of sweetness, eliminate chocolate from the recipe all together. You could also substitute blueberries, blackberries or other fruit for the strawberries and banana
Finally, if you wish to reduce the amount of sugar, readers have had success eliminating the sugar all together. You could do this or replace the sugar with honey or agave nectar.
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Strawberry Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Bananas
Our extra easy baked oatmeal recipe with fresh strawberries, bananas and chocolate is such a crowd-pleaser. You could make this in the morning or if you're short on time, prepare it the night before and bake in the morning. There are lots of substitutions you can make, here. A few ideas: replace the milk with soy milk, remove the egg, reduce sugar a little, or change up the fruit, nuts and chocolate to something you love. We talk a bit more about recipe substitutions in the article, but you can also read below in the comments to see what others have done.
You Will Need
2 cups (175 grams) old fashioned rolled oats
1/3 cup (70 grams) light brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
1 teaspoon Chinese five spice (you can substitute cinnamon)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (55 grams) walnuts, chopped
6 ounces strawberries, sliced
1/3 cup (60 grams) semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 cups (470 ml) milk, dairy or non-dairy
1 large egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ripe banana, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch slices
Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Generously spray the inside of a 2-quart baking dish with cooking spray and place on a baking sheet.
In a large bowl, mix together the oats, sugar, baking powder, orange zest, Chinese five spice, salt, half the walnuts, half the strawberries, and half the chocolate. Add to prepared baking dish. Scatter the remaining strawberries, walnuts, chocolate, and the banana on top of the oats.
In another large bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, butter, and vanilla extract, then pour over the oats and fruit. Gently shimmy and shake the baking dish to help the milk mixture go throughout the oats.
Bake oatmeal until the top is golden brown and the milk mixture has set, about 35 minutes.
For an extra tasty top, sprinkle a tablespoon or so of brown sugar on top of the oatmeal, and then place back in the oven under the broiler and broil for 20-30 seconds.